William Murdock Photography

William Murdock was born in 1977 in Dayton, Ohio. After high school in 1995 William joined the United States Marine Corp where he started his extensive photography career as a “Combat Photographer”.

In 1999 William attended Columbus College of Art Design (CCAD) in Columbus, Ohio.This broad jump from a very rule driven and sometimes hostile environment to a more organic, but structured setting gave him the intangible.

“Going to an art and design college let me understand how to use the tools at my finger tips and get images from my head to my hand, and on paper. But not just that but it allowed me to access the intangible ideas of art directors and designers to get their visions into the tangible image. I am very much a photographer but even more an artist. I paint, sculpt, draw, illustrate, and so I try just about any medium I can. Currently I use a digital medium for photography. Although some of the images here have been produced with medium and large format film cameras. Other